Well, no. I gather that the goal of these criticisms is to “disprove EA” or “argue that EA is wrong”. To the extent that they attack strawmen of EA instead of representing it for what it is and arguing against that, they’ve failed to achieve that goal.
FWIW, I read your comment as agreeing with zchuangs. They say that the book aims to convince its target audience by highlighting fundamental differences, and you say it aims to disprove EA. Highlighting (and I guess more specifically, sometimes at least, arguing against) fundamental principles of EA seems like it’s in the “disproving EA” bucket to me.
(I agree with both of these perspectives, but I only read a single essay, which zchuang called one of the weird ones, so take that with a grain of salt.)
Well, no. I gather that the goal of these criticisms is to “disprove EA” or “argue that EA is wrong”. To the extent that they attack strawmen of EA instead of representing it for what it is and arguing against that, they’ve failed to achieve that goal.
FWIW, I read your comment as agreeing with zchuangs. They say that the book aims to convince its target audience by highlighting fundamental differences, and you say it aims to disprove EA. Highlighting (and I guess more specifically, sometimes at least, arguing against) fundamental principles of EA seems like it’s in the “disproving EA” bucket to me.
(I agree with both of these perspectives, but I only read a single essay, which zchuang called one of the weird ones, so take that with a grain of salt.)